Attractive old Chinese snuff bottle, glass with inside paintings of deers at
front and reverse. Very delicately painted and strong expressions of the deer’s
heads.
Artist signed: Meng Zishou 孟子受
Size: 43 x 24 x 45 mm. Very good condition.
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Meng Zishou was one of the most famous snuff bottle painters at the early last century. 孟子受鼻烟壶
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10 scarce Posters Jimi Hendrix and others. Bill Graham 1968.
Most desirable lot of 10 Pop posters from the late 1960s. (1967-1969) Bill Graham concerts, presented in San Francisco. Authentic posters, no reprints. App. 14 x 23,5 inches each poster.
The lot includes rarities like the Jimi Hendrix concert poster. All are very colorful and in typical POP era style with psychedelic influence in designs: The music bands announced are: Jimi Hendrix Experience, Iron Butterfly, Chuck Berry, Buffalo Springfield, Chamber Brothers, Richie Havens, The Yardbirds, Cicil Taylor, It’s a Beautiful Day, Vanilla Fudge, Steve Miller Band, Sonny Terry & Brownie Mc Ghee, Butterfield Bluesband, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Bo Didley, Big Brothers and The Holding Co, Santana and others.
Old Chinese rosary (or bracelet) with carved nuts, semi precious stones and coral.
The nuts are delicately carved with groups of monks. 16 pieces in a row, length ca. 25 cm.
Good condition.
Attractive old Agate snuff bottle. Pleasing shape with colors ranging from beige to brown and dark brown. Fascinating pattern due to organic inclusions coming from water plants.
Rather new metal stopper.
45 x 22 x 49 mm (without stopper), 44 gram, well hollowed.
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Attractive Raphael Kirchner Postcard
Decorative Art Nouveau postcard by Raphael Kirchner. It is a scarcer one.
It depicts the portrait of a pretty young lady in a heart.
Artist signed: Raphael Kirchner Paris. B.K. W.I. 539. III
Good condition. A few lines at reverse but you used as postcard.
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China, Republic Period. Famille vert brush container with landscape scene at front side and calligraphy ate reverse. Delicately executed.
江西瓷业公司 – Jiangxi ciye gongsi bottom mark.
Diameter: 4,5 inches, Height: 5 inches.
A few small faults from burning process.
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Antique Chinese boxwood-toggle of an immortal (Li Tieguai) with gourd. Lively carving with 2 holes at back to fix a string.
1,8 x 1,2 x 3,8 inches, fine condition, no blemishes.
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American Peoples: Decorative old chromolithograph depicting 14 Indian peoples, Aleútes, Black-feet Indians, Pueblo Indians, Eskimos, Mexican Indians, Indians from South American countries, Sioux, Apaches and many more.
Though older than 100 years the colors of this chromo lithograph look extremely fresh and vivid. The graphic is matted ( simple matting between 2 sheets of cardboard).
Meyers, 1898.
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Attractive Chinese seal, Furong-Shoushan-Stone with a Foo Lion as handle.
The upper part is of a creamy-white, the lower part ocher-beige. As seal engraved are 7 characters: 片月涓涓照硕池 (pian yue juanjuan zhao shuo chi (a flat moon sluggishly shines on the pond) Carved by the important seal-carver Wu Piaotang in 1951. 2,7 x 2,6 x 6,3, 104 gram, very good condition. (The blue tone on the third image is just from the light. No blue color on original).
Side carving with details: 朴堂治印辛卯八月 Wu Piaotang was an early member of the important Xiling- seal carver-society. He was a student of Wang Fuchang and other masters. He also carved seals for chairman Mao Zedong. 吴朴堂（1922—1966），
幼名得天，又名中簠，后改名朴，号厚庵，因得汉代池阳宫灯，故以“味灯室”颜其斋。浙江绍兴人。朴堂的叔祖父便是西泠印社创始人之一的吴石泉，家学渊源，自幼即嗜书法篆刻。他治印先摹西泠八家，后学本家吴昌硕，直至神形兼备；而当师承王福庵先生后，始入浙派堂奥，近朱者赤，深得福庵嘉许，英年就名扬杭城。
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A rare art copy of a Vapheio cup, late 19th century, Emile Gillieron (Swiss, 1850 – 1924) marked “E. Gillieron Athens”. Reproduction of a Gold Vapheio Cup. Gilt copper-alloy electrotype.
The cup comes from the famous Dr. Walter Heihs collection and has the inventory nr. 522 marked at the bottom.
The National Gallery of Athens, where an entire gallery is devoted to Gillieron replicas of works from Greece’s Bronze Age, also contains this object.
Height of the cup: 7,4 cm, diameter 13,5 cm incl. handle. (3 inches by 5 1/4 in diameter).
rare art copy of a Vapheio cup
rare art copy of a Vapheio cup
rare art copy of a Vapheio cup
rare art copy of a Vapheio cup